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The Candidate's Dilemma
Published 2022As they campaign, candidates encounter pressure from the institutional rules that guide elections, political parties, and voters, and must also negotiate complex social relationships to remain competitive. For anticorruption ...Book -
Choosing from the citizens’ toolbox: disability activists as political candidates in Indonesia’s 2019 general elections
Published 2022In this paper, we explore the interaction between unconventional and conventional political participation of electoral candidates with disability who competed in Indonesia’s 2019 general elections. Interviews with electoral ...Open AccessArticle -
Democratization and Indonesia’s Anticorruption Movement
Published 2019This chapter begins with a discussion of the history of anticorruption activism during the New Order and the early days of reformasi before discussing the opportunities and challenges leveled by Indonesia’s democratic ...Book chapter -
A Fall From Grace? “Beef-gate” and the Case of Indonesia’s Prosperous Justice Party
Published 2014This article explores the impact of a widely publicized corruption scandal upon Indonesia’s most prominent Islamic Party, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) in 2013, involving the exchange of money in return for beef-import ...Article -
The Impact of COVID-19: A Comparative Study of the Melbourne and Sydney Jewish Communities
Published 2021Compared to other parts of the Jewish world, Australia has handled the COVID-19 situation well, going into full lockdown early, with fewer deaths on a population basis. At the same time, there were significant differences ...Article -
Indonesia’s Labor Movement and Democratization
Published 2019This chapter demonstrates how the actions of the labor rights movement made a decisive contribution to the delegitimization of the regime. Struggling to regain a foothold after the decimation of independent labor unions ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Introduction: Social Movements and Democratization in Indonesia
Published 2019This introductory chapter focuses on the collective contribution of progressive social movements to Indonesia's transition to democracy and their collective fate in the decades since. This sets the scene for the case studies ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Policy incoherence and tobacco control in Indonesia: an analysis of the national tobacco related policy mix
Published 2021ABSTRACT Introduction: Indonesia has a high smoking prevalence that has not diminished significantly since 1990. Considering this, we aim to summarize the existing national tobacco-related policy mix and explore markers ...Open AccessArticle -
The politics of funding universal healthcare: Diverting local tobacco taxes to subsidise the national health scheme in Indonesia
Published 2021In Indonesia, the national universal health coverage scheme (Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional [JKN]) has consistently overspent against its budget since it was introduced in 2014. In 2017, a new regulation diverted 37.5% of ...Open AccessArticle -
Reflections on academic activism against the death penalty for drug traffickers in Indonesia
Published 2017This case is an example of how academics in Indonesia address certain causes, and sheds light on the interface between academia and activism. What I present here are the broad strokes of one response to a particular social ...Article -
An uphill battle: A case example of government policy and activist dissent on the death penalty for drug-related offences in Indonesia
Published 2021In 2014, newly-elected President Joko Widodo announced that Indonesia was facing a national ‘emergency’ due to high levels of drug use that necessitated harsh criminal justice responses, including the ultimate punishment ...Open AccessArticle -
When news becomes entertainment: Representations of corruption in Indonesia’s media and the implication of scandal
Published 2013-01-01In the current political climate, the Indonesian media is able to report openly on a range of previously taboo political issues (Sen & Hill, 2000; Kakiailatu, 2007; Tapsell, 2010). One issue that garners substantial attention ...Open AccessArticle